I think they've done everything but flat design. When I think about it, I feel like the gens correlate pretty linearly, too. G1 is clunky, but charming, and still experimenting with shapes and ideas. The's a lot of pastel in the color palettes of pokemon, probably because of sugimori's watercolors. G2 isn't quite y2K, but some of the designs are: Porygon 2, eapeon, skarmory. G3 is definitely fruiter aero, with the themes of a cleaner, brighter future. The Lati twins, Gardevoir line, milotic, Manectric...
I mean, ghosts are real and so are actual psychics. You would expect various different subcultures to arise accordingly.
There is real "magic" such as ESP in that world, and yet Helena (that Hex Maniac in that one mobile game) claims there is some organization trying to cover up supernatural.
Orre is the Not Arizona of the pocketmons world.
>glowies canonically exist in the Pokémonverse
Speaking of Orre, don't forget that we know that Cipher(and likely Team Plasma) infiltrated their local government. If they can do it, this can't just be an isolated incident.
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Yes, kind of. It's hard to argue that gens 1 and 2 had any kind of visual design given their limitations, but once those were lifted the series quickly took to trends.
Globohomo shit, aryan masterrace design will be next (hopefully)
There's SOME fun to be had, but it runs out of steam pretty quickly.
You're right, and I agree, but I was focusing on the Pokemon themselves.I have some unfortunate news for you
I miss the dual screen UI. It worked so much better than the single screen tech these days...Similar exceptions can be made for all of Gen 7 (because Gamefreak still cared enough about UI design back then to take an arguably maximalist approach during the absolute peak of bland black and white modernism).
In that case I'd say no but idk about others. Pokémon's always done its own thing in the monster design department (ironically, that very thing is creative plagiarism of nature, but not of aesthetic trends, hidden behind stylization). The only thing I can kind of think of in terms of Pokémon design is Porygon's line, which goes from a shitty 90s polygon to a 2000s blobbygon and then every modern AAA game of today with Z
I miss dual screens in general. Gaming peaked with the DS family and has yet to recover. Praying that the Switch 2 clamshell rumors that have been floating around for years are true.
I thought the gameboy advance SP was great. Easy to carry around, and you didn't have to worry about the screen getting fucked up like the original gameboys.
The SP was the perfect size, was durable enough, and most importantly had the revolutionary backlit screen so I didn't need a shitty peripheral light that plugged into my gameboy to play at night under my covers or during night time car rides.
Don't forget the rechargeable battery, you ended up saving money due to not constantly buying AAs and getting scolded for taking said AAs out of the TV remote. The only complaint I have for the SP is the loss of the headphone jack, that required an additional dongle that used the charge port.
